[He can't help but feel a little defensive at that. He can't help but feel like he has to justify his presence.]
Dumbledore insisted.
[But it comes out weirdly shameful, weirdly embarrassed; he looks down at his feet. He ought to be questioning Sirius' presence; he ought to be pointing out that it's odd for him to be here, too. But questioning that will inevitably go back to Orion Black, and that cold command that the two of them weren't to have anything to do with one another, so he stays silent instead.]
Your cousin is alive.
[He says that like Sirius doesn't already know, which is patently absurd. His embarrassment simply increases. The comment hangs out there, strange, before he mumbles:]
[He nods, once, at Edgeworth's explanation, because: yeah, it would be Dumbledore that would have intervened with that. Sirius has never been particularly impressed by the headmaster, but nor has he disdained him like so many others are so quick to do. Not actually. He might have gone along with what was being said, but he never really felt the same.
At mention of Bellatrix, though, Sirius' face does a weird sort of half-smirk, and he turns away.]
[The bitterness, the unhappiness - those are...expected, Edgeworth supposes. The fact that Black is talking to him at all is more than what's expected. Even though Edgeworth could easily chide the other boy for his unkindness, he doesn't; he doesn't want to drive him away, to anger him, to even just give him an excuse to retreat.
Or - in theory, he doesn't. Yet the first question out of his mouth is:]
Are your parents being all right to you?
[Which - if there's anything that will make Sirius storm off in a rage, it's...something like that.]
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Date: 2013-11-27 05:44 pm (UTC)Dumbledore insisted.
[But it comes out weirdly shameful, weirdly embarrassed; he looks down at his feet. He ought to be questioning Sirius' presence; he ought to be pointing out that it's odd for him to be here, too. But questioning that will inevitably go back to Orion Black, and that cold command that the two of them weren't to have anything to do with one another, so he stays silent instead.]
Your cousin is alive.
[He says that like Sirius doesn't already know, which is patently absurd. His embarrassment simply increases. The comment hangs out there, strange, before he mumbles:]
I'm glad of it.
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Date: 2013-11-27 07:28 pm (UTC)At mention of Bellatrix, though, Sirius' face does a weird sort of half-smirk, and he turns away.]
Yeah. Well. That makes one of us.
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Date: 2013-11-28 08:50 pm (UTC)Or - in theory, he doesn't. Yet the first question out of his mouth is:]
Are your parents being all right to you?
[Which - if there's anything that will make Sirius storm off in a rage, it's...something like that.]